and i believe that their prescription is working for them and the remedy to be sent to do the price that they pay closer dependency an addiction to opiates a long term use that really isn't scientifically justified and i'll study actually suggest that. the long term effects may not just be absence of benefit but actually that they might be causing long term. i'll be down this cold day i die and i hope not i hope i'll have to spend my days going to save dogs and you know you can't save more and then you ride by barns and you look how on earth is a dog's. ha ha ha sad. tara loud to do this to these dogs.

i mean 67 years you know they've been locked up in a cage outside you see no protection from the weather the heat you know the cold air the rain the snow the thunder nothing they have no protection yet as soon as we take the dog and you just wants to kill. me just say you know wants the affection. to get you. it's ok.

mom and dad will probably live their entire lives on that facility in a pin whether it's smaller or larger size but they're not themselves hence they are breeding stock they they typically don't come in the house and snuggle on the couch. they have no idea what life is is about because they spent 247 in a cage when you came into one of these puppy mills. you would just see one on top of another in these little chicken wire crates. you know how cramped it is when you're when you're flying and i was thinking about and i thought it must be like that for the puppy mill dogs that are in these cages being able to get up and move around and i think that the 740 seven's comedy 400 people and i thought it's just like taking 400 golden traverse or labs or shepherds and putting them in

a scene shrapnell them in and making them live there for 8 years you will typically smell the facility before you actually walk near the cages and as soon as you can see the cages. i know it's going to be a bad situation when you have the above ground wire bottom change because that sort of tells us that the person is trying to be very efficient. this is a business people are never profit for an initial outlay of a couple $100.00 for a few breeding pairs you can be selling puppies for a $1000.00 or more apiece if you breed every heat cycle which is not what you're supposed to do but which many of the millers do you could be making tens of thousands of dollars within a couple of years they were housed in chicken coops one dog group so there's probably more dogs and chicken coops no days of neurologic. they make

money on dogs being born. they rarely see of that. that's how expensive and expensive the met would cut into their profits as far as selling the dogs. it's not good it's really not a good place for going to. find out wrong. it was a night that i was on the internet and some mouse and they came over me and said i want a puppy so i googled piece by piece on my. delivery person called me to set up a day in time what time the dog would be arriving and he said you know i would like cash upon arrival not

a check and that was fine so he went 1st wanted me to meet him at a rest stop off the new jersey turnpike. i just cut him off right there like that was not i'm not and that one day i think is not happening. i know i know something's are right and that was one of them. i'm not a nervous person i'm not scared of many things but i was nervous because children were inside and this guy was delivering a puppy 11 o'clock at night in a van that reeked of cigarette smoke i said this is a street my house and i want to have a real address so he said that's fine i'll call you on the street mr i run it o'clock east call and said he was running late and he showed up at 11 so it was very fast he called he was out front i ran outside on the street and he got opened his it was a van he opened his van and there is all crates of dogs puppies in the back and he picked out rufus and he said here's your dog.

2 pieces of paper came with the dog that they look like i could have printed off the computer but that's i didn't know any better so i just assumed it was fine. i brought the dog and it was late so i just put him play with him for a little bit but he was super tired and he just looked like he wanted to go to sleep so put his bed in his crate and cry was weird because when i had puppies before they cried in a crate the 1st time he did make a sound that was like this the best dog every doesn't make noises perfect baby and i look up to a dog that was basically having seizures going to the bathroom and throwing up. i there is going to die. and at that i you know is it's only 24 hours but you bond as a person you just feel super bad for it's a baby in you just want to help it. he starts making this horrific sound like he's yelping in pain out of nowhere like just laying down just making this terrible sound off and on and i said this isn't normal and then he threw up and had diarrhea and i said i'm going to take him to our family that i'm thinking that i can't

believe that somebody was and this dog here that sec and this is all the money that we're going to spend and this is crazy because i had no idea what to expect as they said they could stay there for days to get better and i was just i was worried about the money i was worried about the dog at the same time after spending 2 days at northstar parents being treated for hypoglycemia rufus was able to return home at the initial examination the veterinarian the care for rufus certified he was unfit for purchase rufus's cross-country journey began in miller's burg ohio on a farm owned by most troyer this is how i am after i buy the dog after he is delivered then i start googling most rare then is when i start and then i was like what is wrong with you why wouldn't i really that's how naïve i was i thought it was going to be perfect and then then i start googling and i hindsight was like i need to find out where these parents are like i was disgusted less than 2 weeks before

nicole purchased rufus on line tours the u.s.d.a. license was cancelled currently no u.s.d.a. or state commercial license is issued for this address i've got like giving up a couple times a i said no one's call me back this is so frustrating but then i kept thinking it wasn't about the money it was the fact that this was a life that no one cared about. they are just like oh take the puppy that was 6 weeks old 5 weeks old away from its mom and to shove it in a van with creeps stirrer and then called a day like no one cared. of state highway $53.00 in the middle of ohio this is a puppy mill not unlike the one that rufus was likely born and it's where his parents will remain until they're unable to produce the puppies in profits expected by the owner there's no natural light no human contact except for the red pickup that stops by wanted

a discount or food and fill water bowls unregulated and under the radar. was. often we find that on the east coast that many of the puppies are coming from what we call ground 0 for large scale volume bring puppy mill bring and that's holmes county and it is really the heartbeat of where a lot of the puppy mills and a lot of the issues have started in the state of ohio when you consider that they have 43000 population and you have over 500 channels that's a lot of kennels for the number of people in that general area. and holmes county alone in 200720088 was a $9000000.00 business. now when you consider that the average family income for a family of 4 is probably less than $30000.00 in holmes county that's

a considerable amount of production that is coming out of that particular area in amish country. rufus his journey to new jersey is similar to the one thousands of puppies travel from holmes county ohio in the years since rufus arrived at nicole's house and the driver has made multiple journeys to the east coast delivering puppies sold on the internet from puppy mills throughout holmes county. there's times where we here where the puppy was actually transported by someone just like john public and they load him into a vehicle and so when the puppies arrive it's not unusual to have a vehicle full of puppies and some of those puppies are very sick and some won't make the trip whatsoever they just assumed ban puppy mills places they always meant like the mall the puppy store in them or the puppy store the inside of st i just never thought that it was like on the internet i really thought when i bought rufus

that he was in pennsylvania running through a field happy night didn't think it was a puppy mill dog at all. pennsylvania farmers began breeding dogs probably about 30 or so years ago there were actually breeders in missouri who came up to pennsylvania specifically because of its large amish and mennonite farming communities here we had one of the worst states for puppy mills i we were called the puppy mill capital of the east and that was primarily because pennsylvania's number one industry is agriculture. in the mennonites are more likely to view these animals as cash crops as agricultural products we've heard that over and over again and i believe that to be true. not all amish families or not all minimally families breed dogs but the large majority

the overwhelming majority of the people that we deal with the breeders are from illinois it was something that farm families could do between when you harvest in the fall and when you plant the spring. as commercial kennels cropped up across pennsylvania in the late 1960 s. the welfare of the dogs trapped in puppy mills was not viewed as a priority of the pennsylvania department of agriculture inspections were few and far between the regulations were ill defined and the program was clearly underfunded so the regulators were completely tied by the laws and just to the vagueness of all of them so what we really needed was in forcible measurable standards you would see inspection reports time and time again where a warden is morning operator to do something. and this didn't go on for like

one or 2 inspections in a year's time you're talking about years and years of warnings for many of the same offenses there was so much opposition from within the industry itself that the regulations were just going nowhere. and it became very apparent that we had to do a legislative fix. is your media a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation in the whole community. are you going the right way or are you being led. what is true.

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you put it's not just on thoughts almost nubile not among the look so nice to stop it. it's seemed wrong. when old rules just told. me to get to shape out just because the ticket and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. throughout the years efforts to improve the lives of dogs in pennsylvania puppy mills would ultimately die in the legislature at the hands of powerful lawmakers it was not until

a simple billboard was put up in lancaster county that the general public began to learn of the problem our 1st billboard we made it look like a postcard and we had a family in our car and they were all waving across the top and yellow script just like a postcard and said welcome to scenic lancaster county home to hundreds of puppy mills and we received over 3000 phone calls and e-mails in 2 days and the majority of those phone calls came from people who lived in lancaster county who were thanked us for finally doing something about what their neighbors were doing i think the issue gained a lot of traction through the media you know more reporting on the issue it became sort of something that was that was out front it was no longer confined to you know what happened behind the party doors after witnessing the overwhelming response to their billboards in pennsylvania mainline animal rescue placed a new billboard this time oprah winfrey studio in chicago when we were on oprah and

the aftermath we watched up here in the kennel i realized that it really didn't matter what the legislators wanted or what they didn't want because people started contacting us and people were horrified horrified by what was happening in lancaster county it was happening in pennsylvania what was happening in missouri and oklahoma nebraska and they couldn't believe that animals were being treated this way and they wanted to do something about it. this was 100 percent a public effort it was really because people were hearing about the plight of puppy mills on the news on oprah reading about it in their newspapers going home and looking in the faces of these little pooches that are sharing their you know tables and beds for most of us and saying oh my gosh what if that had been my dog and it became very very personal to a huge number of people who started picking up the phones and calling their. slater's through this whole struggle and it was a struggle and it was hard it was very very difficult i never lost sight of the fact that the people have the power to change things and when the legislature

realized that they did not want to go home in an election cycle and face the constituency wondering why didn't you do something about this the bill got legs and this was a 2 year long is like 2 to 3 year long legislative battle in pennsylvania many of the dogs that the law was was pushed through many of the law the dogs that we wanted to protect are now dead so i'm hoping that it's that the dogs the future dogs the dogs that are in these places in the future are helped by what we've done but most of the dogs the majority of the dogs that we wanted to help are gone now and they never got the relief that they deserved or that the law enforcement. only union boilermaker out of pittsburgh. despite every free town my i have is basically in their own work and and i'm working a 10 hour shift i'm working on saving dogs. everybody has their own little parts and i think that was that was my call and you know go into the mills and that's

what i want them to dogs so i know their laws are covered in your and they're covering and they've got at least what i'd like to do is take them and then hold on my head on to say they're a bit touched a they ok so i mean i don't mind they got all over him because i want to separate dead were different you know you're leaving that life and i want their you know the rehab to start as soon as we take the dogs. and it's sad because you can't save all said it hurts i mean there's plenty of nights you stay up at night and you can sleep with a lot of rescues or you know deal with the puppy mill dogs know that i mean honestly you know it's costly running through your mind about the dog you left behind like the one i went to the guys bringing the dogs that there are so many dogs inside the puppy mill that when the dog started barking when he went in to get the dogs the side of the barn was actually shaking.

there's no force was good they suppose he this year and last year and kind of both pennsylvania and ohio made the laws better but there they they passed the walls but no one's in force and. a lot of people think when you say rescue dogs from puppy mills i think we went in to the board on take the dogs but that's that's all we did because the because mills are legal i think a lot of people don't understand that you know these puppy mills are legal they're allowed to explain to him how you know we wait for the amish to contact you know then we set up a day when we can go get the dogs and then we know will load up the. ours you know them will drive you know made on their property get the dogs. i mean. i don't know about.

they said all that all that all they want is luggage so that's one way. to the economy i mean. in my name is eugene deep ask well you know i'm the pennsylvania auditor general. we make sure all money is spent legally ineffectively but we also audit state

programs so it's not just a question whether the financial side of it is the you know the the account ledgers or matching up but also what is the effectiveness of the program so we get to go in and say ok the money might have been spent legally but was it spent effectively it was a program run effectively while inspections and prosecutions dramatically increased after the pennsylvania dog law came into force within a few years noticeable concerns began to emerge i started to receive reports confidentially from within department reaching out to me dog wardens administrators people who had worked for the department and had left that are an area. who were concerned that the new head of the office of dog law had no idea what she was doing so reviewing inspection reports and in 2011. indicates that there were virtually no citations issued just like any other law it's only as good as the enforcement of it and early on in the law there were some concerns that

it wasn't being enforced properly so and the audit of the dog or program began. in a scathing report auditor general di pascali found the dog law program from its introduction in 2008 through 2012 showed an intentional lack of enforcement of the state's dog law and the commercial kennel canine health regulations. enforcing the law in the can mean the partner agriculture said this during the audit that they weren't enforcing it because they knew the kennels weren't complying is say that again they were enforcing it because they knew the kennels weren't complying but the goal of the law is to get people not to do it the goal of the dog was not to find champs it was to get kennels do improve the conditions in their facilities . for the animals that's the goal of the program and we were getting the troops ready to really make a huge deal out of the lack of enforcement of this very popular law and all of

a sudden there was a 180 of the department and they hired a director of enforcement who was one of the best dog wardens that we've ever seen but here is the the big big issue and it's not just this it's anything we do the people matter who are running the programs right now i think the administration made significant strides into who is running the program but the people that are actually running the program sometimes you know that there are faceless bureaucrats to the general public and i understand that but the actual individual who's in charge matters and it's important that governors are they be dead. mark radical republican they not just put people in because of the considerations but also the qualifications of the individual but i do think that that is the case now that you know top notch professional there and that i think is a big reason why you're starting to see a turnaround in approach. while progress has been made the

challenges of regulating and inspecting license to marshal breeders and finding unlicensed breeders in pennsylvania continues in the heart of lancaster county millwood kennel aka millwood puppies provides a prime example of the bureaucratic shell game played by some large scale breeders . david and iommi stalls fus have been breeding dogs on their property in lancaster county since the early 1990 s. having obtained both a pennsylvania license and a u.s.d.a. commercial breeders license from 2003 onward pennsylvania inspection reports clearly indicate dogs were suffering in a facility that was not meeting even minimal welfare standards after a further string of harangued us inspection reports in 2008 david voluntarily relinquished both his pennsylvania and u.s.d.a. license but the dogs remained at the same puppy mill though the name was changed to millwood puppies and ownership passed to david's son matthew stills foose matthew

quickly obtained a u.s.d.a. commercial breeders license at the same address. immediately the violations continued under the new license when millwood puppies was inspected in october 2009 the violations were so severe that the commonwealth of pennsylvania brought multiple charges against matthew for violations under the dog law. before pennsylvania district judge isaac stalls foose all charges against matthew were summarily withdrawn and all cases closed in 2010. at no time with the dogs removed from the facility by either state or federal authorities. around this time matthew found a new very lucrative avenue to sell his puppies the internet since 2010 it's estimated that matthew has sold over $3000.00 puppies online ranging from

302-2800 dollars each in 2013 alone millwood puppy sold 472 dogs more than a dog a day during this period matthew maintained a pennsylvania kennel license but in january 2014 he applied for a new u.s.d.a. commercial breeders license for millwood puppies l.l.c. this was the 3rd u.s.d.a. commercial breeders license and the 2nd pennsylvania license issued for this one address in the past 8 years i think one of the most remarkable things that we actually were able to illustrate on the oprah show that one of the dogs that we picked up from know what chemicals. it was either know what kind of time or millward obvious it was a yellow out a male yellow lab and i'll never forget he's a really beautiful dog but he had never been off water for it it's a beautiful beautiful yellow and the amish breeder if you stop astride the dog government we put pick the dog up and put the dog in the van and we put the dog down on the solid floor and in the lobby he started to walk like he had never been

here ever going to south or again he started walking up the wall he tried to walk up the wall of our lobby because he had never been on solid before and it's just amazing to me that they would expect an animal to live in his or her entire life unpaid for a wire flooring and they wouldn't do it themselves. matthew's large scale puppy breeding business was not his only interaction with the u.s.d.a. during the same time period he was receiving farm subsidies from the u.s.d.a. the total $56624.00 in commodity subsidies associated with. his dairy farm lancaster county pennsylvania has a total population of a little over 536000 residents from 1995 to 2012 farmers in the county have received 100 $28000000.00 in taxpayer funded farm subsidies from the u.s.d.a. . an extensive investigation for this film found numerous examples of u.s.d.a.

license commercial breeders receiving multiple violations from the animal health of vision on one hand and large taxpayer funded farm subsidies on the other while the programs are viewed as distinct and separate by the u.s.d.a. the fact remains that license commercial breeders with multiple dog welfare violations continue to receive taxpayer funded farm subsidies in lancaster county and many other rural areas throughout the united states these commercial breeders are exploiting a federal agency by receiving a taxpayer funded handout while simultaneously receiving major violations for failing the dogs in their care. less kaiser or more of my guide to financial survival this is. a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these has flaws are

simply not accountable and we're just getting more and more true that. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for god's guys are. going to be good on the growth rate if there's going to be one can be expected through the pandemic has done its course post the beginning changed economy. is really chance of returning to pretend they can get. god. now if you is from around the world live from central london this is r.t. u.k. . the business secretary announces the creation of a task force to combine efforts in the search for a coronavirus bank seen as a former director of the world health organization calls the u.k.'s response to

slow. reports a few people with serious problems such as stroke self-conscious types are attending hospital judy coronavirus fears we hear from an emergency department doctor. we're seeing far fewer numbers of things like hostile acts and strikes and it's like severe abdominal pain like appendicitis and there is a growing concern amongst medical profession that and these patients are not going to hospital when they should be. leading experts warn of an impending mental health crisis in britain teaching the effects of the pandemic. and police ignore the government's social distancing rules as the public plan for key workers on westminster bridge i'll be joined by a former police officer. welcome

to r.t. the u.k.'s business secretary alan chava has announced the creation of a task force to combine efforts in the search for a coronavirus vaccine earlier the government had been accused of being too slow in its response to the coronavirus crisis as european countries expressed concern over britain's infection rates well. joins me now for more on this so then he said a move then that could potentially in the crisis is that right yes we've seen just a little under an hour ago at sharma taking the podium to. the front the government's daily briefing and he announced the government's intention was to continue. trying to slow the spread of 19 but also he announced a development that some will hope will lead to some type of light at the end of this tunnel and that was the development of a task force that will see industry private business private finance academia or regulators and government coming together all in a joint effort to try to find

a vaccine for covert 19. we need to apply the best of british to him to endeavor to the search for the crude virus vaccine to that end i can amounts today that the government has set up a vaccines taskforce to coordinate the efforts of government academia and industry towards a single goal to accelerate the development of a current virus vaccine this task force is up and running and aims to ensure that a vaccine is made available to the public as quickly as possible that's alexander with the latest government press briefing but before that the government was coming in for some criticism wasn't it yes we've been seeing the government consistently throughout this crisis criticized for their approach to tackling covert 19 with regard to testing and p p and we see it we've seen the health select committee sitting today using virtual conferencing of course to try to get some arts is now

one official who went in front of that committee was the former director or former director of maternal child and adolescent health at the world health organization anthony costello and he took the opportunity to say that in his opinion the u.k. had been simply too slow to react to the crisis. you need to find cases you need to test them if you can you trace to contacts you isolate them you do social distancing but most important of all you do it will speak and make their harsh reality and one of the reasons i have not been constructive critical and also i believe we should not have any late stage we should have it noted late where with the cisco systems marriage ledger staff have probably the highest death rate your and we have to face the reality we were number of but we can make sure that in the 2nd wave we're not. now we've seen concerns raised across the channel on main land

europe where an austrian minister health minister that is took an opportunity to take some graphs and charts to try to compare some of the infection rates in countries like switzerland germany where they are relatively low to that of the u.k. which the minister says is dangerously high. at that switzerland has managed to get down to 2.2 percent italy also managed to arrive at 2.5 percent which is the main element of hope there not so much when it comes the number of deaths and the rate at which new infections occur and this is what is frightening many in europe at the moment that the numbers in great britain with 7.7 percent france 3.7 percent and germany which always used to have a similar development too was in many criteria a little bit above our numbers with 3 percent. penalty now secretary hancock was also speaking today and he said that the government has been trying to

increase testing of the government have missed almost all of the targets they've set for themselves but he says the government will not only increase targeting and testing for n.h.s. workers but also across the board for all public sector workers who are fighting this crisis on the front lines. now we've got the curve under control i want to be able to get back to the position that we can test everybody with symptoms and i'm being able to do that relatively soon because we're increasing capacity i can today expand the eligibility for testing to police fire service prisons staff local karate critical local authority. staff the judiciary and d.w.p. staff who need it and we're able to do that because of the scale of testing of course all that comes as the government announced yesterday they will be extending that lockdown for another 3 weeks and that subject to certain conditions being met

otherwise the lockdown could continue for the foreseeable future day that had at least 3 weeks to the isa thank you very much indeed thank you where doctors are expressing concern is the a case hospitals are seeing a reduction in patients with serious medical conditions as people delay seeking help here to fears about coronavirus well in london university college hospital is trust saw a 30 percent reduction in people being referred or treated for stroke on a survey from across 55 countries revealed only one in 5 hospitals reported stroke patients currently receiving the usual care and in long bloody italy's worst affected region treating serious heart attacks has fallen by 70 percent while emergency department doctor who'd like to remain anonymous told r.t. there's an increasing fear about catching the virus in hospital. for current virus we're seeing probably about 450 to 500 cases a day and presenting to any and that was quite similar across the country and now

we're seeing about 180 a day come to iranians and and a number of these cases and. we're seeing far fewer numbers of things like heart attacks and strokes and things like. things like appendicitis and there's a growing concern amongst the medical profession that these patients are not going to hospital when they should they could be a number of reasons and and going to be fewer patients coming in with things like trauma because people are staying home and so we're expecting less injuries and people generally are getting and a lot less stress and nobody's so potentially less people are having heart attacks but i think i know from patients i have spoken to there's a huge amount of fear amongst the community about coming into hospital because i worried about catching coronavirus and there's also a large group of people who are worried about putting pressure on the n.h.s. this moment in time and so i think that there's

a lot of reasons why people are not coming and i think that actually there's probably a lot of it was doing at home with problems when they should be and because if there are and of our. experts have warned that britain faces a mental health crisis as a result of the coronavirus pandemic in a recent report leading academics claim the mental health fall out of the crisis could last well beyond the lifting of a lot done they say social distancing along with unemployment and potential poverty could cast a long shadow on the population's mental health experts also believe gradually reopening areas of the economy in a staggered lockdown could lead to further anger and resentment from those who aren't allowed out well earlier i spoke to one of the authors of that study professor ed bullmore he thinks the fallout from the mental health crisis could actually be worse than the fires. itself if you talk to the people in the general population are levels of anxiety others of depression and stress related feelings.

if you don't 2 people with a particular interest in the middle as perhaps because a member of that only has mental illness you see those anxieties but also concerns about carded making things worse making briggs's thing mental health disorders worse or making it more difficult for people with mental health issues to find access to the right services and in terms of a mental health crisis do you think it's unique to britain or is it something that's global as a uniquely individual. well i think individuals are going to vary of course they do we know that but i you know this is a pandemic and that means that it affects all of us as as affecting a country in the world and even within this country you know i think the the mental health impacts the social restriction of unemployment. are going to go far beyond the impacts on those. rivers really few people hopefully that have been infected

with the virus and have physical health outcomes that the mental health impact is potentially broader and wider than the physical health and part because. the mental health side of this is. that was the step to build the social restriction and the response to. the infection rather than being entirely driven by action itself. when use of the short break.

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depths. or a maid in the shallows. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to yes of the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you then. welcome back the n.h.s. is to launch an investigation into why people from ethnic minority backgrounds are more likely to be affected by covert 19 in england or wales around 13 percent of the population a from ethnic minority backgrounds though they account for 44 percent of n.h.s. doctors and 24 percent of nurses are reported 70 percent of the 54 frontline health professionals who died from the virus were from ethnic minorities last week

intensive care research has said the group was disproportionately affected they claim out of around 2000 coronavirus patients roughly 65 percent of white 14 percent black and 14 percent from asian backgrounds while the last census in 2011 shows just over 7 percent of the u.k.'s population asian and just over 3 percent black well the n.h.s. and public health england will conduct the investigation into why these groups could be more at risk that's as the chairman of the british medical association suggested it wasn't a coincidence the 1st 10 doctors to die from the disease were from these backgrounds some researchers believe ethnic minorities often fall into the poorest sectors of society so it could be more vulnerable shadow equality secretary welcomes the move and emphasizes the importance of reducing the disparity with oxygen by order told me the n.h.s. needs to be careful where they place ethnic minority staff to ensure they don't become severely unwell. yes we do something to stop it unless we can positive positively identify what's going on in these communities it will continue to happen

because some of the 1st to answer the call to arms to research the n.h.s. will black and asian and resigned colleagues if there are increased risk because of their ethnicity as well as their age we need to be very careful where we place these people to make sure that they don't run the risk of becoming seriously unwell in trying to help in this effort is that fair among ethnic minority doctors nurses working on the front line i can only talk of a bell colleagues that i would directly and work in a large organization of r.g.p. schooled hugh and about 60 to 70 percent of those are from black and asian backgrounds of course i think everyone's scared and. doctors are trying to help and the only way to help is to actually put ourselves in the front line the health secretary has announced a green or white badge for adult care workers as part of the action plan to help

the care sector is similar to the one worn by n.h.s. staff and not hancock says it should be seen as a badge of honor but not everyone is convinced. we're today introducing a single brand for social care to symbolize the entire care profession this is something i know so many people in the profession have called for this badge will be a badge of honor. well

other say a more practical benefit would be to issue free visa or extensions to naani you care workers who don't have indefinite leave to remain but on thursday the u.k. government said there'd be no amendments to the immigration bill elite letter from the leading group of adult social services also accuses number 10 of treating the sector as an afterthought compared to the n.h.s. . the government's admitted that deaths from cancer could increase as

a result of the coronavirus pandemic doctors are becoming increasingly concerned that people who need care are staying away from hospital 2 to virus fears r t u k shot it was dashed he spoke to one council patient who's been trying to get the care she needs but found her calls were to no avail toni kroos was supposed to be on the path to becoming cancer free she's already been through the unimaginable twice now but she's fighting the fatal illness for a 3rd time and given her a rare form of cancer tony needs specialist treatment and it can't come soon enough unfortunately because of coronavirus at the moment the trials are actually not running so at the moment all they can really. do locally would be. sort of chemotherapy and things like that so. we are been informed in the past that this type of cancer risk chemotherapy resistant so if i was stout buckey my therapy then that would be more of

a palace to treatment rather than something that could help cure this. the single mother of 2 was 1st diagnosed with a rare cancer in her 102016 which resulted in having her i've removed but now the disease has returned to her lungs and skin tissue while her own colleges have a shorter she's on the list to be treated in a specialized center in london when the doors open again given the scale of the outbreak she and tens of thousands of other sufferers can only assume it may be months not weeks before they're treated because we don't really know how long any of this is going to take are a lot of people that are not receiving the treatment they should be receiving just so i feel like everybody's in the same boat at the mine because cancer and its treatment can suppress i mean system oncologists are now faced with having to decide whether it's worth the risk of offering treatment if it could expose the most vulnerable to cave at 19 which could also prove fatal. quite eye for the doctors at the moment because they're having to choose varied between. people's

immune systems in this treatment and i think a lot of them are having to make very difficult decisions on who is still receiving chemotherapy at the moment so i know. it's really the choice between if you are if you are have been the source of treatments like chemotherapy they do have an impact on your means so it's sort of choosing the lesser of evils really well the n.h.s. struggles to deal with the coronavirus crisis leading experts in the field say some patients will die sooner not because of the infection but because they are not able to treat other diseases as they would normally so unfortunately when we have a pandemic like we have bad things happen however let me be clear we have to save lives and that is why we are here we cannot just let. one

ruble susceptible people fall by the wayside but tony is not alone anyone on chemotherapy has been advised by the government to stay at home if possible hospital guidelines suggest keeping beds free for coronavirus patients plus a reduction in theatre space means scores of people having vital surgery perspire own so as resources are diverted away to tackle cave at 19 there are warnings that those with chronic illnesses could become the hidden victims of this pandemic certain treatment that can wait to wait certain treatments that cannot wait must not wait for example a invasive cancer that needs urgent treatment it must happen to say we're not going to do it doesn't sound right to me and he doesn't sit comfortably with me because then you're basically saying the thing to do and wait you're afraid that can't we know right so while doctors try to find the balance between holding off on treatment and exposing vulnerable patients to the coronavirus people like tony have

no other option other than hoping for the best are just staying in this hopeful it's possible really it's just a case of enjoy every day and take it as it comes for even one step at a time but while she waits she also realizes that the crucial treatment could arrive too late to go fund me page has been set up to help her and her children make memories together in the hope that if she doesn't make it her kids will still be kept for if this starts progress quicker than we expected and the children will have so that the pool of money that they will have when their own go to fall back on when they weren't ready have me there with sort of birthing christmas money every year and i'm hoping to have something they can have in their savings account for when they were shot at a stash we are to u.k. london. some people in london how they ignored government guidelines to avoid mass gatherings congregating a westminster bridge on thursday night to applaud key workers.

well hundreds of people gathered on the bridge to show their gratitude for a looking worker's efforts but many people were surprised that the police allowed people to flout government rules meanwhile the metropolitan police commissioner also made an appearance but he added to the social distancing guidelines. or the police about why what is reasonable and what isn't under lockdown they've said buying food and staple items as well as tools for fixing weathered fences are acceptable but they don't accept buying paint suit decorate as a necessity in terms of exercise jogging cycling and go girl permissive as well as stopping to eat on long walks but sitting on park benches for an extended period of time after a short bit of exercise is on acceptable key workers those who are unable to work from home and people supporting the vulnerable are allowed to work but those going door to door offering to do work for cash in hand jobs are not allowed and other

good reasons include taking an animal to the vet for treatment or going to a friend's house for several days to cool off following an argument with those you live with but socializing at friends' houses is press it it. what to discuss the place is called the time i drive by former police officer peter kay and i say safety from a distance place a well the police have dropped the ball here haven't they i mean no one on the bridge including the place was socially distancing what. he strikes me as an own goal and looking at social media today it strikes a lot of other officers as girl as well especially officers from county forces who . have been expressing a view that amassing so let them down that said there were similar. gatherings in other prices i've seen them in leeds and i think in lancashire somewhere. with lots of police vehicles lots of police officers lots of people gathered around to do this clapping thing which beats seems to have become something in its own right and

it started off as just being an expression from people's doorsteps and windows and it's now spread to something that's attracting gatherings which is a rather defeats the object indeed it does but i mean how do you rate the police in performance mean overall since the lockdown was introduced. well overall we've got to remember that there are millions of interactions between police officers and members of the public every day and individual officers will have dozens themselves if they're on patrol and so we multiplied as up across the country and there are millions and we. find a tiny proportion of those that have been problematic and we hear about a tiny proportion of the unproblematic so the rest appear to be going out. some of the ones we've heard about there's criticism but when you actually look at say the police are done as well as they can in the circumstances there was one in richmond where a lady was just sitting there effectively somebody's been watching the sunset on the richmond riverside police officer and obviously spoken to her about an hour

earlier she was still there an hour later and he said look you can't just be sitting around in public places that isn't allowed can you move on she refused and she eventually talked to self into getting arrested about 40 minutes later so you know sometimes people are critical of things and the police have just got to the left with nothing else to do when people are refusing to cooperate or what do you want to do with that would you like to see the police get tougher in some instances i mean some people say they've actually been too lenient if you compare it for instance to other european countries. i wouldn't we can't compare it with other european countries because the laws in the regulations that are in price it's only different what i would like to see is the police in the u.k. apply in the regulations that are in place in the u.k. the police don't get to invent them if they like them they'd like them to be stronger that they are what they are they need to interpret them sensibly and in any case of any legislation where reasonable excuse is are used and what we need to remember here is we haven't got a list of things that are and are not permissible what is permissible is be an

answer of your home for a reasonable execution and then there are some examples and those examples are expanded further in the guidance that we're hearing about today but that's not an exhaustive list and so the police know about reasonable excuses in various of the legislation they need to approach this with commonsense and with discretion use in tax in good humor having discussions with people listening to what people have to tell them and then addressing those points too afraid times we've seen officers that are just totally ignoring anything that anybody's trying to tell them and basically showing them a one on one officer saying to the person you're killing people by the hair which was hysterical nonsense to be frank and so some officers need to take a step back but the vast majority seem to be doing a good job but also points out that the westminster bridge thing i think there were only once people involved in that as well and certainly of the garrote gatherings

there's n.h.s. people there's i'm glad it's out paper everybody basically has to observe their own as it's a case of a bit that it's a matter of course observe their roles he's a guy complex you very much indeed for joining us thank you thank you. and that's all from our to you k. our colleagues reality america will take over at the top of the hour so for all the team here in westminster goodbye. the world is. shaped by.

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